January Book Sale

The January book Sale starts at 2.30 pm on Monday, January 4th and runs until Saturday, January 9th. Classic books are featured.

ATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOPPERS

The Bunker will be open during the Holidays for your shopping pleasure!

10:00 AM to 12:00 noon

 Saturday, December 26  Saturday, January 2

Please note that the Library itself will be closed on both Saturdays.

Fine Amnesty until January 9

The Write Stuff - Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay was born in Owen Sound, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto and in 1974 went north to Yellowknife. For the next ten years she worked as a CBC radio broadcaster and eventually freelanced from Mexico. In 1986 she moved from Mexico to New York City, and in 1992, returned to Canada. 

Hay is the author of the #1 nationally bestselling novel Alone in the Classroom, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel Late Nights On Air, as well as three other award-winning works of fiction.  The Library has all her novels, including her most recent His Whole Life.

Hay lives in Ottawa with her husband and their two children.  Click here to visit her website.

December - DVDs

Boychoir









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Arthur & George
Chicago
Gemma Bovery
The Horse Boy
Love Actually
Mr Holmes
Vanity Fair
The Widower
Woodhouse in Exile
Big Hero 6
The Descendants
Go Diego Go! The Great Jaguar Rescue
Frosty Friends
Inside Out
Prancer
Scooby-Doo and the Snow Creatures
A Very Thomas Christmas
Walking with Dinosaurs

December - Audio Books

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr









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Garden Spells   Sarah Addison Allen
Mightier than the Sword   Jeffrey Archer
Truth According to Us   Annie Barrows
Incendiary   Chris Cleave
The Museum of Extraordinary Things   Alice Hoffman
Silver Sparrow   Tayari Jones
Go Set a Watchman   Lee Harper
The Rocks   Peter Nichols
Unlucky 13   James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Private Games   James Patterson & Mark Sullivan

December - Fiction

Vinyl Café Turns the Page
Stuart McLean








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The Japanese Lover   Isabel Allende
Patriot   Ted Bell
Breaking the Rules   Suzanne Brockmann
Crazy Little Thing   Tracy Brogan
Dreaming Out Loud   Benita Brown
Not Quite Dating   Catherine Bybee
Wife by Wednesday   Catherine Bybee
The Days of Abandonment   Elena Ferrante
The Survivor   Vince Flynn
Parade's End   Ford Maddox Ford
The Good Doctor   Damon Galgut
The Little Paris Bookshop   Nina George
The Soldier's Daughter   Rosie Goodwin
Rogue Lawyer   John Grisham
Fates and Furies   Lauren Groff
Down the Ottawa and Up the Nile   Roderick L. Hodgson
Avenue of Mysteries   John Irving
A Brief History of Seven Killings   Marlon James
Bazaar of Bad Dreams   Stephen King
Shopaholic to the Rescue   Sophie Kinsella
Silver Linings   Debbie Macomber
The Abbey:  A Story of Discovery   James Martin
The Lake House   Kate Morton
Bittersweet   Sarah Ockler
Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi   Jacqueline Park
The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi   Jacqueline Park
Survivor   Lesley Pearse
The Yellow Birds   Kevin Powers
The Promise of Provence   Patricia Sands
Promises to Keep   Patricia Sands
The English Spy   Daniel Silva
See Me   Nicholas Sparks
His Brother's Wife   Val Wood

December - Mysteries

Devil's Bridge
Linda Fairstein








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The Moth Catcher   Ann Cleeves
The Crossing   Michael Connelly
Host   Robin Cook
Depraved Heart   Patricia Cornwell
The Scam   Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg
Banquet of Consequences   Elizabeth George
The Ghost Fields   Emily Griffiths
The House on Cold Hill   Peter James
Cold Betrayal   J.A. Jance
Shadow Play   Iris Johansen
The Slaughter Man   Tony Parsons
Corridors of the Night   Anne Perry
River of Souls   Kate Rhodes
In the Dark Places   Peter Robinson
Saturn Run   John Sandford & Ctein
Lamentation   C.J. Sansom

December - Non-Fiction

The Three-Year Swim Club
Julie Checkoway










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What's Happened to Politics   Bob Rae
Buying Guide 2016   Consumer Reports
Make Ahead Meals   Jan Miller
Very Easy Circular Knits   Betty Barnden
Pacific:  Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral...   Simon Winchester
Frommer's Paris 2012  Joseph Alexiou
Franklin's Lost Ship   John Geiger
Road Trip Rwanda   Will Ferguson
The Reason You Walk   Wab Kinew
The Storm of the Century   Al Roker

December - Biography

Born Survivors 
Wendy Holden








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Sins of the Mother   Irene Kelly
The Lost Landscape   Joyce Carol Oates
On the Move   Oliver Sacks
John le Carré   Adam Sisman
My Life on the Road   Gloria Steinem
Born Survivors   Wendy Holden

December - Children's Books

The Night before Christmas   Barbara Reid



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Dashing Through the Snow   Helaine Becker
The Very Noisy Bear   Nick Bland
The Turnip   Jan Brett
Click, Clack, Ho!Ho!Ho!   Doreen Cronin
Veggies with Wedgies   Todd H. Doodler
The Reindeer Wish   Lori Evert
Who Wants Broccoli?   Val Jones
A Dog Wearing Shoes   Sangmi Ko
The Little Snowplow   Lora Koehler
Free The Galaxy   Lego Star Wars (Himani Khatreja)
Ready for Action   Lego Super Heroes (Victoria Taylor)
The Mysterious Raven   Cathryn McNamee
The Reluctant Butterfly   Cathryn McNamee
Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein   Amanda Peet
Splat the Cat : A Whale of a Tale   Rob Scotton
Splat the Cat : The Name of the Game   Rob Scotton
Beasts of Olympus #1: Hound of Hades   Lucy Coats
Beasts of Olympus #2: Beast Keeper   Lucy Coats
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10: Old School   Jeff Kinney
Dragonsitter #1:   Josh Lacey
Dragonsitter #2: Takes Off   Josh Lacey
House of Robots #1  James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
House of Robots #2: Robots Go Wild   James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
Cutest Animals Collection   Laura Marsh
The Octopus Scientists   Sy Montgomery
Koala Hospital   Suzi Eszterhas
Endangered Pandas   Bobby Kalman
Hockey Superstars P.K.Subban   Michael Burgan
Hockey Superstars 2015-2016   Paul Romakav
World War 11   Simon Adams
The Great Wall   Elizabeth Mann
Machu Picchu   Elizabeth Mann  

December - Teens

I Am Malala
(Young readers edition)
Malala Yousafzai






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Black Ice   Becca Fitzpatrick
Dangerous Lies   Becca Fitzpatrick
Seraphina   Rachel Hartman
Heroes of Olympus #4: The House of Hades   Rick Riordan
Ripley's Believe It or Not Eye-Popping Oddities   Rebecca Miles
Strange but True   Andrea Mills
Top 10 of Everything 2016   Paul Terry
How to be an International Spy   Andy Briggs

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is an Australian TV drama series. The series is based on Author Kerry Greenwood's novels and was created by Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries revolves around the personal and professional life of Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis), a glamorous private detective who sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handed pistol and dagger-sharp wit. The series appeals to all generations.The library has the first series. Click here for a more detailed link.

Holiday Schedule

Murder Ink - Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward is an online book reviewer whose blog, Crimepieces, reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world. She has also reviewed for the Eurocrime and Crimesquad websites and is a judge for The Petrona Award for translated Scandinavian crime novels.

After years of writing professionally in a government agency, she moved to Greece to teach English as a Foreign Language. It was in the Athenian heat, homesick for the English countryside, that she started the crime novel she’d always wanted to write. Sarah now lives in rural Derbyshire where her debut novel, In Bitter Chill, is set.

The Library recently acquired her novel.  Click here to visit her website.

November - Fiction

A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin










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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend   Katarina Bivald
In the Unlikely Event   Judy Blume
The Blue   Lucy Clarke
The Taming of the Queen   Philippa Gregory
His Whole Life   Elizabeth Hay
The Illegal   Lawrence Hill
Looking for Me   Beth Hoffman
Pretty Baby   Mary Kubica
The Secret Sister   Brenda Novak

November - Non-Fiction

Haatchi & Little B
Wendy Holden









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Three Times a Day   Marilou Champagne
Hitler's Art Thief   Susan Ronald
The Lady in Gold   Anne-Marie O'Connor
Chasing the Mountain of Light   Kevin Rushby
This is Happy   Camilla Gibb

November - DVDs

DCI Banks-Season 3










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Homeland-Season 4
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries-Series 1
Murder in the First-Season 1
Outlander-Season 1
Scott and Bailey-Season 3
The Homesman
A Little Chaos
5 Flights Up
The Best Offer
Girl on a Bicycle
Shadows in the Sun
Whitechapel

November - Mysteries

The Girl in the Spider's Web 
David Lagercrantz








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The Hanging Girl   Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Murder Road   Stephen Booth
The Precipice   Paul Doiron
Matricide at St-Martha's   Ruth Dudley Edwards
Career of Evil   Robert Galbraith
The Zig Zag Girl   Elly Griffiths
Oblivion   Arnaldur Indridason
The Girl in the Spider's Web   David Lagercrantz
Perfect Touch   Elizabeth Lowell
Entry Island   Peter May
The Company She Kept   Archer Mayor
Dante's Dilemma   Lynne Raimondo
Pretty Girls   Karin Slaughter
In Bitter Chill   Sarah Ward
The Cartel   Don Winslow

December Book Sale

The December Book Sale starts at 2.30 pm on Monday, December 7th and runs until Saturday, December 12th. Cook Books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Mike Offit

Mike Offit began a twenty-year Wall Street career after graduating from Brown University, abandoning advertising, and earning an MBA from Columbia University. He rose to become a senior trader at Goldman Sachs, and to head the commercial mortgage and asset-backed securities trading desks at First Boston, Prudential, and finally at Deutsche Bank. After retiring, he returned to writing. The Library recently acquired his debut novel Nothing Personal:  A Novel of Wall Street.

Offit lives in New York City and Bedford, New York, with his wife and their two children.  Click here to visit his website.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - WPC 56

WPC 56 is a British television drama series, written by Dominique Moloney and broadcast on BBC One. The series revolves around the first Woman Police Constables to join Brinford Constabulary, a fictional police force in the West Midlands, starting in 1956. The first two series focused on WPC Gina Dawson's struggle to gain acceptance at a male-dominated police station while having to deal with the sexist attitudes that were commonplace at the time.
The library has the first two seasons. For more detail link here.

What Will They Think of Next?

Murder Ink - Stuart Neville

Stuart Neville's debut novel, The Ghosts of Belfast, won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by both the New York Times and the LA Times. He has been shortlisted for various awards and has since published three critically acclaimed sequels. Neville’s novels have been translated into various languages and his fourth novel is currently in development for television.  He lives in Belfast. 

The Library recently acquired The Final Silence.  Please use the Suggestion Book at the front desk if you would like to read more of his books.  Click here to visit his website.

October Children's Books

Pour l'amour d'une bulle
Bob l'éponge










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Désastre au zoo  Bob l'éponge
La mer des monstres   Rick Riordan
Ivy and Dean Take the Case  Annie Barrows
The Wizard of Oz  Frank Baum
Cynder Confronts the Weather Wizard  Orik Beakman
Wish Upon a Friend  Phoebe Bright
Wish Upon a Pet  Phoebe Bright
Wish upon a Song  Phoebe Bright
Cartboy & the Time Capsule  L.A. Campbell
The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning  Chris Colfer
A Big Surprise  Kate Finch
A Nose for Trouble  Kate Finch
On With The Show  Kate Finch
Zac Power: Boot Camp  H.I. Larry
Zac Power: High Risk  H.I. Larry
Dolphin Rescue  Tracey West
New Girl in Town  Marilyn Easton
Toilet Paper Mommy Michael Rex
End of the World  Michael Rex
Kristy's Great Idea   Ann Martin
The Truth About Stacey  Ann Martin
Polar Bear Alert!  Debora Pearson
Pixie Hollow Tales  Google Books
Pippa the Pumpkin Fairy  Tim Bugbird
Click, Clack, Boo  Doreen Cronin
Goodnight Hockey  Michael Dahl
The Day the Crayons Came Home  Drew Daywalt
Superman vs. Mongul  Michael Teitelbaum
Frozen  Victoria Saxon
Charlie's Snow Day  Ree Drummond
Meet Marley  Natalie Engel
Five Little Ghosts  Patricia Hegarty
Run-Down Racecar  Sheila Sweeny Higginson
Polar Bears  Laura Marsh
Sea Otters  Laura Marsh
The Book With No Pictures  B.J. Novak
Hallowe'en Countdown  Jack Prelutsky
The Rain is a Pain  Amy Tsu Lin
Hallowe'en Collector's Edition  Jerry Seinfeld
What Pet Should I Get?  Dr. Seuss
The Most Magnificant Thing  Ashley Spires
The Haunted Ghoul Bus  Lisa Trumbauer

October - Teens

The Mortal Instrument
Cassandra Clare







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City of Heavenly Fire  Cassandra Clare
If We Survive  Andrew Klavan
Rump  Liesl Shurtliff

October - Fiction

Maya's Notebook
Isabel Allende








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False Impression  Jeffrey Archer
My Brilliant Friend  Elena Ferrante
Kill Shot  Vince Flynn
Purity  Jonathan Franzen
The Honey Queen  Cathy Kelly
Revival  Stephen King
Hunt the Fox  Don Mann
Nothing Personal  Mike Offit
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Large Print) Alex. McCall Smith 

October - Mysteries

You Are Dead
Peter James









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Make Me  Lee Child
Blue Monday  Nicci French
Dead Ever After  Charlaine harris
Lethal Intent  Quentin Jardine
The Final Silence  Stuart Neville
Alert  James Patterson
White Fire  Preston & Child
Festive in Death  J.D. Robb
Silken Prey  John Sandford

October - Non-Fiction

The Last Maasai Warriors
Wilson Meikuaya








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Health Care & Politics  David Levine
Fifty Years of Flying Fun  Rod Dean
Haatchi & Little B  Wendy Holden
Superfood Smoothies  Julie Morris
Macdonald at 200   Google Books
Open Heart, Open Mind  Clara Hughes
A Broken Hallelujah  Liel Liebovitz
Strength of Conviction  Tom Mulcair
Common Ground  Justin Trudeau

November Book Sale

The November Book Sale starts at 2.30 pm , Monday, November 2 and runs until Saturday, November 7th. Special children's books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Lori Lansens

Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. Translated into 12 languages and published in 15 countries, Rush Home Road, received rave reviews around the world. Her follow-up novel, The Girls, was an international success as well; rights were sold in 20 territories.  Her third novel, The Wife’s Tale, is currently in development as a feature film.  The Library has her collection, including her fourth and most recent novel The Mountain Story.

Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in the Santa Monica Mountains with her husband and two children.  Click here to visit her website. 

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Borgen

Denmark s blockbuster political drama, Borgen ( The Castle ) explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg becomes Prime Minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to learn the ways of power, quickly. She s an altruistic public servant in an old boys club and must master the art of the deal overnight, manage her image and understand that she has advisors but no real friends. She also must perform the impossible juggling act of maintaining a family life while serving as Denmark s first female Prime Minister.
The library has the first season. Link here  for more detail.

Murder Ink - Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford grew up in Miami, Florida, and graduated from the University of Miami. She later moved to New York City and then Boston before settling in Atlanta to raise three daughters and work in the field of adult education. A member of the Atlanta Writers' Club and the Village Writers, she teaches at Georgia Piedmont Technical College and dabbles in local politics.  The Pocket Wife is her debut novel which the Library recently acquired.

Crawford lives with her husband and a trio of rescue cats in Atlanta. Click here to visit her website.

Annual Vintage Sale - October 3rd

September - DVDs

Woman in Gold









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Borgen - Season 1
The Crimson Field
Far From the Madding Crowd
The House of Cards - Season 3
Last Tango in Halifax - Season 3
Nurse Jackie - Season 4
Oranges & Sunshine
A Place Called Home - Season 2
Princess Grace
Les sauveurs du Palais
Unbroken
Vera - Season 3

September - Fiction

The Marriage of Opposites
Alice Hoffman









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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards.....  Fredrik Backman
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon  Fatima Bhutto
Tom Clancy's Under Fire  Grant Blackwood
The Race for Paris  Meg Waite Clayton
Lost & Found  Brooke Davis
Blue Prints  Barbara Delinsky
Gonzo Girl Cheryl Della Pietra
Miss Carter's War  Sheila Hancock
The Reluctant Midwife  Patricia Harman
Hidden  Emma Kavanagh
Villa America  Liza Klaussmann
The Mountain Story  Lori Lansens
Pleasantville  Attica Locke
Music for Wartime  Rebecca Makkai
Palace of Treason  Jason Matthews
The Novel Habits of Happiness  Alexander McCall Smith
Circling the Sun  Paula McLain
Wind/Pinball  Haruki Murakami
Fire in the Blood   Irène Némirovsky
Teatime for the Firefly   Shona Patel
The Glassblower's Apprentice  Peter Pezzelli
Villa Mirabella  Peter Pezzelli
That Day in June  Martina Reilly
A Paris Affair  Tatiana de Rosnay
Whispering Shadows  Jan-Phillipp Sendker
Vagabond  Gerald Seymour
Country  Danielle Steele
The Bookseller  Cynthia Swanson
England & Other Stories  Graham Swift
The Book of Speculation  Erika Swyler
Bombs Away  Harry Turtledove
Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase  Louise Walters
Second Life  S.J. Watson
Mobile Library  David Whitehouse
A Year of Marvellous Ways  Sarah Winman
Catching Fire (Large Print)  Suzanne Collins
The One And Only (Large Print)  Emily Giffin

September - Mysteries

The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny








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Malice at the Palace   Rhys Bowen
The Pocket Wife  Susan Crawford
X  Sue Grafton
Carson Ryder 12  J.A. Kerley
The Whispering City  Sara Moliner
The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Private Vegas  James Patterson
Harvest  Robert Pobi
The Winter Foundlings  Kate Rhodes
Gathering Prey  John Sandford
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster  Scott Wilbanks
Cold Cold Heart (Large Print)  Tami Hoag
Hot Pursuit (LargePrint)  Stuart Woods

September - Children's DVDs

Paddington










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Barbie as the Island Princess
Dora the Explorer - Puppy Power
Home
Minion Madness
Monster High - Ghouls Rule!
Monster High - Scaris:City of Frights
Muppets Most Wanted
Night in the Museum 2
Toopy & Binoo-Totally Patchy Patch
Annie (Blu-ray)
Jumanji (Blu-ray)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Blu-ray)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Blu-ray)

September - Audio Books

At Home in Mitford
Jan Karon





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Incendiary  Chris Cleave
The Devil Wears Prada  Lauren Weisberger
Killer Dreams  Iris Johansen

The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip and Print Is Far From Dead

Steve Bercu, co-owner of a bookstore in Austin, Tex., where 2015 sales are up 11 percent, and profits are the highest ever.

Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print. Read the article...

October Book Sale

The October Book Sale starts on Monday, October 5th at 2.30 pm and runs until Saturday, October 10th. Crafts and Cooks are featured.

The Write Stuff - Emma Hooper

Raised in Alberta, Canada, Emma Hooper brought her love of music and literature to the UK, where she received a doctorate in Musico-Literary studies at the University of East-Anglia.  She currently lectures at Bath Spa University. 

A musician, Emma performs as the solo artist Waitress for the Bees and plays with a number of bands.

Etta and Otto and Russell and James is her debut novel. 

Hooper lives in Bath, UK, but comes home to Canada to cross-country ski whenever she can. 

The Library recently acquired her novel. Click here to visit her website.

The Bunker - Skates for Sale!

This coming Saturday September 12th the Bunker will be selling hockey skates ( some brand new!) with a few odds and ends , helmets and pads...save loads!    Also available a large selection of girls and ladies skates.The Library Shop, also known as the Bunker,  is open Saturday mornings, 10am-12 noon.